Here is a wonderful program in Hoffman Estates that serves homeless and at-risk moms and their. These are moms in need of need of housing, support, serving, and most importantly, hope. Its a very worthwhile program in need of both moral and financial support. You can find further information at the following website. http://www.fhcmoms.org/
Archive for the ‘Get Involved’ Category
Fellowship Housing
December 30, 2009Get Involved
December 10, 2009I’ve added a new category to my blog called “Get Involved.” By going to this category under any topic where it’s found or through the category cloud on the sidebar, you can see a variety of groups and organizations that you might want to invest some time and energy in. Make an intentional effort to get involved and create [...]
Dismantling Racism
December 9, 2009Dismanling Racism by Joseph Barndt, Author. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Books, 1991.Here is a book about racism in America, written “for white people and about white people . . . by a white person.” Joseph Barndt, defining racism as “prejudice plus power,” asserts that efforts against racism have often been incorrectly focused on minority populations rather [...]
The Everyday Club
December 9, 2009This is an interesting blog that may help readers discover new and creative ways to share their faith. Members are dedicated to telling someone about Jesus and the saving grace of God every day. The blog relates the stories of recent conversations members have had with random people about their spiritual beliefs and the Biblical [...]
GoSo: The Beauty of Serving Others.
October 15, 2009GOSO provides hope, stability and opportunity to Youth offenders. A caring place where dedicated volunteers serve as role models and programs are provided that empower our youth to succeed in an ever changing world to avoid the cycle of release and re-arrest. http://www.letsgoso.org/
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
October 15, 2009An interesting group whose call is to social justice. They see their mission as articulating the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.ee their website at: http://www.sojo.net/
Men at the Cross
October 15, 2009Men at the Cross is a revolution that seeks to answer the call of the great commission in America and the world by equipping and empowering every committed believer to “Love a man to Jesus until he’s ready to love another man to Jesus.” http://www.menatthecross.org/
Chicago Christian Businessmens Connection
October 15, 2009CBMC began as Christian Business Men’s Committee in the United States in 1930, when a group of Christian businessmen coordinated a series of pre-Easter rallies. With the Great Depression in its second year, these men saw a need for a spiritual revival in the Chicago area, and a six week evangelistic crusade was held at [...]
Flourish: An Environmental Group
October 15, 2009Environmentalism from a Biblical Perspective. Go to: http://flourishonline.org/
Christian Law Association
October 8, 2009The Christian Law Association is a “ministry of legal helps.” Its purpose is to provide free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are experiencing legal difficulty in practicing their religious faith because of governmental regulation, intrusion, or prohibition of one form or another. http://www.christianlaw.org/
Transformation Garden: A Book and Website for Women
May 29, 2009Transformation Garden is a website/devotional page for Women that sprang out of the book by Dorothy Valcárcel called When A Woman Meets Jesus (see www.whenawomanmeetsjesus.com/). Transformation Garden has become a worldwide Christian ministry dedicated to encouraging and empowering women in their daily walk with Jesus. The devotional thoughts presented in Transformation Garden have their foundation [...]
The Chicago Fellowship
May 5, 2009Chicago Fellowship is committed to helping men experience the saving grace of Jesus Christ and work together to extend that grace to others through acts of compassion and justice in the broken places of our world. When we gather, we challenge and encourage one another through God’s Word and the sharing of our lives. We [...]
The Hole in Our Gospel: A MUST read
May 5, 2009This is an amazing book about what God expects from us who claim to be followers of Jesus. A MUST READ book for every person who claims to be a Christian. Find the official site at: http://www.theholeinourgospel.com/ Endorsements: http://www.theholeinourgospel.com/endorsements/ Read an interview with Dr. Richard Stearns, president of World Vision. http://blog.sojo.net/2009/04/24/the-hole-in-our-gospel-interview-with-world-visions-richard-stearns/ A Book Review: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-hole-in-our/
Urban Ministries Website
April 7, 2009Urban Ministries is the largest independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media company. They publish Christian resources, including Sunday School and Vacation Bible School curricula, books, movies, and websites designed for African American churches and others seeking a diverse, Christ-centered perspective on faith and life issues. http://www.urbanministries.com/
CeaseFire and Gang Violence
April 7, 2009CEASEFIRE WEBSITE: http://www.ceasefirechicago.org/cpvp.shtml Some videos about CeaseFire and gang violence in Chicago: https://slurpee.uchicago.edu/dossier/Search/SearchResults.aspx?search=True http://www.ceasefirechicago.org/video.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3960858n%3fsource=search_video http://www.ceasefirechicago.org/video.shtml
Deaf Performing Artists Network
January 27, 2009Here’s a really cool article aboout a kid who started a network for deaf performers. Access it at: http://www.d-pan.com/index.html
Teen Challenge Chicago
January 15, 2009Outreach to street gangs and drug abusers in Chicago. Famous from the books The Cross and the Switchblade and Run, Baby, Run, the stories of David Wilkerson and Nicky Cruz. http://www.teenchallengeil.com/chicago/
The Fish
November 1, 2008The Fish is a University of Chicago magazine exploring issues of faith and reason. A good resource for those who see a conflict between the two. Find old issues and accessible articles at” http://thefish.uchicago.edu/Letter from the Editor Here are the articles from volume 1.2 as an example: ******************************************************* Reflections on a Convention: Looking Through the [...]
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Chicago
November 1, 2008A good place to keep track of Christian outreach on the Unversity of Chicago campus with links to other IVCF groups around the country. http://intervarsity1.uchicago.edu/
Putting your mark on all the things you do
October 2, 2008This is a moving video about someone who left his mark on his job. It should lead us all to ask ourselves how we can personalize our own jobs. http://www.simpletruths.tv/movies.php?movie=STSR
Nice Girls Don’t Change the World
April 19, 2008Website for Lynne Hybels, wife of Willowcreek pastor Bill Hybels. This is a website set up in response to her book Nice Girls Don’t Change the World. Here is the site: http://www.lynnehybels.com/
Hear or See John Ortberg on the “Next Steps”
March 28, 2008Hi everyone: As most of you know, Willowcreek was blessed to have John and Nancy Ortberg as teaching pastors for a number of years. He is now the Senior Pator of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. He is one of the best speakers I have ever heard. Many of us are still [...]
Open Doors USA
March 20, 2008The Persecuted church around the World. When one part of the body suffers, the entire body suffers. http://www.opendoorsusa.org/ http://www.persecution.com/ Also see The Gospel for Asia and pray for the suffering christians of Sri Lanka who are growing but caught in the midst of a civil war and experiencing terrible persecution from the Buddisht majority on [...]
Getting the Most out of Foreglow
March 6, 2008This blog site is intended to be interactive so that I am not the only one soliciting thoughts and comments or posting events. I intended this to be dispersed to the wider Beverly community where there is much need and a lot of brokenness. My hope is that others in the community will begin to [...]
Reminder: Upcoming Seving Opportunities
March 4, 2008April Serving Opportunity The Beverly Table will be having a Day of Service in Beverly. We are thinking it will be connected with the landscaping a replanting that will take place around the rennovated Beverly 99th Street Train Station. This will be done under the auspicies of the East Beverly Association of which Julie is [...]
Serving Opportunity in Mexico
February 28, 2008Hello again friends of Global Connections Latin America! We wanted to let you know about an upcoming international serving opportunity. Harvest Ministry here at WCCC is forming a one-week serving trip to Foundation for His Ministry’s (FFHM) children’s orphanage in Morelia, Mexico. FFHM in Morelia is an orphanage home to 30 orphaned or abandoned children. FFHM shares and [...]
Looking to Serve?
February 26, 2008Here are some sites for one year service ideas: http://www.idealist.org/en/career/oneyearservice.html
Pericles and the call to serve
February 22, 2008A truth well worth remembering: “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Shared Hope International
February 14, 2008A Program Aimed at Stopping Sexual Slavery http://www.sharedhope.org/
Upcoming Serving Opportunity
February 10, 2008Feed My Starving Children A Willowcreek Chicago Day of service on May 17th and 18th in which we will prepare 190,000 meals for hungry children around the world. We need 1,000 men, women and children from Willow (and friends) to participate in order to make this happen. This would be a great opportunity for out [...]
